What We Take For Granted Essay Research — страница 2

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in 1918 time stopped (p126). At times he wasn t even able to tell if he was awake or sleep. There would be times when he would think that he was fully awake and he would only come to realize that he wasn t even awake at all. The whole idea had been taking form in his head for a long while the idea of trapping time and himself back into the world but he hadn t been able to concentrate on it (p127). If Joe could get back being able to have a sense of time, then he could become part of the world around him. If you can keep track of time you can get a hold o yourself and keep yourself in the world but if you lose it why then you are lost too (p126). For Joe, there were no options. he had to regain a sense of time and rejoin the living world around him. Joe lost everything, but in a

sense, he really lost it twice. The first time, when he was initially injured, and the second time when he actually realized it. He had to deal with finding out that he had no way to communicate with the world around him. He would never hear, feel, speak, walk, ever again. He couldn t even breath on his own. But yet, he doesn t give up. He finds something that he can get back, his sense of time, and he goes after it and doesn t let his physical disabilities hold him back. All the reader can do is cheer him on and stop and think about all the little things that they take for granted, every day.